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People would ask him how he thought of his poems, and he would say, "Oo-er!" and they would hail him as delightfully original. In the case of Thomas Blake I saw my earnings going up with a bound. His personality would be a noble advertisement. He was aboard the Ashlade or Lechton on the Cut, so I was informed by Kit. Which information was not luminous to me.
An hour's walking brought me to Hanwell, and I was glad to see a regular chain of locks which must have considerably delayed the Ashlade and Lechton. The afternoon wore on. I went steadily forward, making inquiries as to Thomas's whereabouts from the boats which met me, and always hearing that he was still ahead. Footsore and hungry, I overtook him at Cowley. The two boats were in the lock.
Tom Blake of the Ashlade and Lechton. No ceremony. Jest drop in on me and the missis. Goo' night." At the moment of writing Tom Blake is rapidly acquiring an assured position in the heart of the British poetry-loving public. This incident in his career should interest his numerous admirers. The world knows little of its greatest men.
Yet who else could have called on me at that hour? I went to the front door, and opened it. On the steps stood the Rev. John Hatton. Beside him Sidney Price. And, lurking in the background, Tom Blake of the Ashlade and Lechton. Sidney Price's Narrative Norah Perkins is a peach, and I don't care who knows it; but, all the same, there's no need to tell her every little detail of a man's past life.
He was a little blank at first, but when I reminded him of our last meeting his face lit up at once. "Why, you're the mister wot " "Nuppie!" came in a shrill scream from the lady with the horse. "Nuppie!" "Yes, Ada!" answered the boy on the Ashlade. "Liz ain't tied to the can. D'you want 'er to be drownded? Didn't I tell you to be sure and tie her up tight?" "So I did, Ada.
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